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Monday, 1 August 2016

FCMB Bank Manager Commit Suicide: Management Explain.

Olisa Nwakoby.

First City Monument Bank Plc has finally opened up on one of its
managers, Olisa Nwakoby who committed suicide last Friday in front of
Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Lekki, Lagos State.The bank disclosed that Nwakoby, a father of a 10-year old daughter, had personal challenges and became frustrated.Before
shooting himself in the head, Nwakoby reportedly went to his pastor in
the church and told him to tell his wife to take of the children.
Thereafter, he shot himself in front of the church.The bank,
however, noted that neither the management nor colleagues of the
deceased were aware of the challenges, adding that it was working with
Nwakoby’s family and the police to unravel the nature of the challenges.

It
was gathered that 44-year old Nwakoby, the manager of the bank’s branch
in Lekki, shot himself in the head over a bad debt estimated at N350m.The deceased was said to have given out the sum as loan to a bank customer, who allegedly failed to service the loan.He
was reportedly under pressure from the bank’s management to repay the
loan and became frustrated as he could not meet the demand.The
Acting Group Head, Communications and Brand Management of the FCMB, Lola
Egboh, told Punch newspaper on the telephone on Sunday that the suicide
had nothing to do with the bank, adding that she did not have the
knowledge of any loan.Egboh described Nwakoby’s death as
shocking, saying that the bank would have come to his aid if it was
aware that he had emotional challenges.

“It is rather unfortunate
that the incident happened. Mr. Nwakoby was a member of staff of the
FCMB. We are not aware that he was facing personal challenges, which led
to the incident. As a bank that caters to the well-being of its
workers, we have counsellors who could have helped him. This came as a
surprise to us as it was to the public. It is such a trying time for the
family; we have been in touch with them. There is a lot of speculations
going on at the moment, a lot of them unfounded.“We are working
closely with security operatives and his family to understand what could
have led to the personal challenges. I am not aware of any loan. I
can’t comment on speculations.”Efforts to speak with the family
proved abortive as of press time. But a source close to the family said,
“They were too distraught to speak to the press now.”

The Lagos
State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, had in a
statement disclosed that a pistol and live cartridges were recovered
from the scene, adding that Nwakoby’s corpse had been deposited at the
Lagos Island Hospital’s morgue.She said, “At about 9.45am on
Friday, one Olisa (Nwakoby) allegedly shot himself in the head with a
pistol in front of Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church on Northern
Foreshore Estate, Lekki.

“A team of policemen attached to the
Ilasan division visited, examined and photographed the scene. The
exhibit, a silver America pistol with five rounds of unexpended
ammunition, was recovered to the station while the corpse was removed
and deposited at a morgue for autopsy. Investigation is ongoing.”Source: PM News